'What is the society of London, that I should be tempted, for its sake, to mortify my senses, and compound with such uncleanness as my...
'Kissing, Joseph, is but a prologue to a Play. Can I believe a young fellow of your Age and Complexion will be content with Kissing?'...
'As you got older, ... you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived. All around you there seemed to be something glaring, garish,...
Lady Audley uttered a long, low, wailing cry, and threw up her arms above her head with a wild gesture of despair. In this fiction,...
",Lady Chatterley's Lover", was the subject of one of the most infamous trials of the 20th Century when Penguin were prosecuted under the Obscene Publications...
'You talk very easily of hours, sir! How long do you suppose, sir, that an hour is to a man who is choking for want...
'Wealth and beggary, virtue and vice, repletion and the direst hunger, all treading on each other and crowding together'Is any writer as closely associated with...
In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn to do his duty, Syme uses his new...
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of...
'Here - I am waiting to know about this offer of mine. The woman is no good to me. Who'll have her?'In a fit of...
As the rebellious Maggie's fiery spirit and imaginative nature bring her into bitter conflict with her narrow provincial family, most painfully with her beloved brother...
'He now saw himself stained with the most loathed and monstrous sins, the object of universal execration ... doomed to perish in tortures the most...
When Rachel Verinder's birthday present - the Moonstone, a large Indian diamond - is stolen at her party, suspicion and the diamond's mysterious curse seem...
'If only I had the skill, I would produce novels out-trashing the trashiest that ever sold fifty thousand copies' In&,nbsp,New Grub Street&,nbsp,George Gissing re-created...
",Yours is a 'spectable calling. To save your 'spectability, it's worth your while to pawn every article of clothes you've got, sell every stick in...
'O the deceitfulness of the heart of man! This John, whom I took to be the honestest of men ... this&,nbsp,very&,nbsp,fellow was all the while...
The Pickwick Papers, twenty-four-year-old Dickens's joyful, rumbustious debut, made him an overnight sensation. The collected anecdotes from the fictional Pickwick Club - whose members include...
A nightmarish tale of religious fanaticism and darkness, this chilling classic of the macabre tells the tale of Robert Wringhim, drawn in his moral confusion...
The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human lifeHow do we carry on...
'Do I desire unreasonably much in wanting what is called life - music, poetry, passion, war, and all the beating and pulsing that is going...
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